Word: darien
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...here with hair spray. I only wear spandex in a dark gym. Here it's more relaxed and I can be myself. And if someone bumps into you they're more likely to say, 'Excuse me.' " Danny Beal, a 27-year-old dairy farmer from nearby Darien, says, "It's the only place I can be in public and show my feelings." And now that promiscuity is out, says Gary Marcinkowski, 25, who owns a Buffalo-area painting business, the atmosphere in a country bar offers another advantage: "It's less of a pickup scene...
Still, various DEA chiefs and attaches admitted that Noriega's Panama Defense Forces had closed down the infamous Darien drug-refining lab of the Medellin cartel, confiscated drug-refining chemicals, helped catch drug traffickers and money launderers, and even closed a cartel-controlled bank. James Bramble, former head of the DEA office in Panama, testified that a P.D.F. tip led to the capture of the cartel's top money launderer, Ramon Milian Rodriguez, when he was in Florida to ship $5.5 million in drug proceeds to Panama. His arrest occurred at about the same time that the prosecution claims Noriega...
...prosecution case, based largely on testimony from former drug traffickers who have received lenient treatment for their cooperation, was weak on some key points, most notably the inability of Noriega's colleagues to agree on payoffs the general allegedly took from the cartel to protect the Darien lab. Although 15,000 boxes of documents were seized by U.S. troops during the 1989 invasion, the lone scrap of written evidence about Noriega's involvement in drugs was a piece of yellow notepaper with some scribbled words on it. As the defense pointed out, it could well have been notes...
...dollar bribe from Colombian drug lords in 1984 in exchange for safe haven in Panama. But Camargo also said the only bid by the general's men to get into the drug business in a major way was an unsuccessful attempt by Colonel Julian Melo to process cocaine at Darien in Panama...
...Winthrop House resident from Darien, Conn. says she had hoped to work at the New York Shakespeare Festival where, she noted, she would receive less than minimum wage. Working a second summer as a camp counselor is her back-up plan...